SCREENWRITING II
- Department: Film
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- M 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rania Attieh
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Wesley Jones
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Galt V Niederhoffer
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Constance Tsang
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Jessie Keyt
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Minhal Baig
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Rafael L Pedreira
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METHODS: CLOSE READING & CREATIVE WRITIN
METHODS: CLOSE RDNG & CRT
TBA
- Department: Narrative Medicine
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Instructor:
Katelyn T Connor
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Instructor:
Mario de la Cruz
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Leadership & Professional Development fo
NOPM Professional Develop
Investing in professional growth is essential to building strong, adaptive, and innovative nonprofit organizations. Columbia University's M.S. in Nonprofit Management Professional Development Series is an online, bi-weekly, zero-credit seminar class that helps students stay current with best practices, navigate complex challenges, improve organizational sustainability, and enhance their impact in the communities they serve. Students will increase their networks and connect with potential mentors and employers while hearing how they can leverage the M.S. in Nonprofit Management degree in their own careers.
The course, which is a co-registration requirement for NOPM students taking Capstone, is open to all NOPM students and for cross-registration.
- Department: Non Profit Management
- F noon-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Basil A Jr Smikle
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Electoral Data & Predictive Modeling
One of the best ways to predict the future is to study the past. A dizzying amount of data is available to study elections and politics, including survey and polling data on individual preferences, beliefs, demographics, and choices; data on aggregate conditions and outcomes; and, for more recent years, a wide range of social media data. From polling analysts and pundits to campaign managers and career journalists, making sense of this data can create a competitive advantage for professionals working in the field of politics. By analyzing the results of previous elections, insights can be gleaned to enhance understanding of the factors that contributed to electoral wins and be used to build statistical models or to create machine learning models that can predict future outcomes. Students will curate various types of data and work with starter code to build their data wrangling and computational skills. Students will learn how to explore data with these techniques, understand how they work, and derive insights and knowledge based on the analysis results.
- Department: Political Analytics
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Schwam-Baird
Info - 3 points
Electoral Data & Predictive Modeling
One of the best ways to predict the future is to study the past. A dizzying amount of data is available to study elections and politics, including survey and polling data on individual preferences, beliefs, demographics, and choices; data on aggregate conditions and outcomes; and, for more recent years, a wide range of social media data. From polling analysts and pundits to campaign managers and career journalists, making sense of this data can create a competitive advantage for professionals working in the field of politics. By analyzing the results of previous elections, insights can be gleaned to enhance understanding of the factors that contributed to electoral wins and be used to build statistical models or to create machine learning models that can predict future outcomes. Students will curate various types of data and work with starter code to build their data wrangling and computational skills. Students will learn how to explore data with these techniques, understand how they work, and derive insights and knowledge based on the analysis results.
- Department: Auditing
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Schwam-Baird
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Reading the City: Episodes in Parisian d
At least from the early moments of the European enlightenment the tension between the vision of an ideal functioning city and the reality of cities growing beyond easy surveillance at any level from the political to the experiential might be said to have led to a new epoch in the very consciousness of the urban. The idea of the legible city emerged even as the very possibility of obtaining the vantage point for such comprehensive seemed more and more elusive. The seminar will offer a meander through the landscape of this tension juxtaposing theoretical and technical literature from the discourse on the planned city that emerged in the mid-18th century – we might say in the aftermath of the dismantling under Louis XIV of the city’s walls that defined its limits and form – and which led to the formation of the modern profession of urban planning in the final years of the 19th century with the rise of a new urban literature. In the novel in particular, the urban setting became ever more a frame, a presence, and even a character and protagonist, for instance in Victor Hugo’s
Notre Dame de Paris.
Our aim will to be read across a rising professional literature and a growing presence of the city in literature. It is hoped that seminar participants themselves will develop a great agility in “reading” architectural and urban space.
- Department: French
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Instructor:
Barry G Bergdoll
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Figure Painting: Alternative Source Mate
This class is designed to introduce you not only to the subject of painting the human figure and its expressive potential, but also to focus on the art and craft of Painting. We will be painting the figure from secondary source material that can include photos, other artworks, clay models etc. The focus will be on figurative narration. We will be learning to see color, and use paint in response to that. Painting is a way to account for, express and communicate what you have seen with your eyes, mind or in your imagination. You will be introduced to different approaches to the craft of painting, and will by the end of the semester be more free and confident in interpreting your inner and outer vision. We will also be looking at paintings made in different times and places and discuss how and why they look the way they do. You will also be designing and carrying out your own independent project to be completed by the final critique.
- Department: Visual Arts
- F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
Kant with Arendt
This course will provide an introduction to Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics in conjunction with his philosophical anthropology and philosophy of history. Our readings will be guided by Hannah Arendt’s approach to Kant’s aesthetics as the foundation of a political philosophy in her posthumously published lectures on Kant. Both Kant’s and Arendt’s texts will not only be discussed in dialogue with each other, but also in view of their responses to Burke, Nietzsche, and Benjamin. Finally, particular attention will be given to forms of philosophical writing, such as the essay and the aphorism.
The course is intended for graduate students. There are no pre-requisites. All texts are available in English translation.
- Department: French
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Instructor:
Dorothea von Muecke
Info - 3 points
Presence and Persuasion for Technology L
This course teaches students how to get through to any audience for any reason. Technology leaders, more than in any other industry, must be equally comfortable as public speakers for vastly different audiences, from software developers and sales teams to politicians and the general public. Through exercises in speaker and audience analysis, studies in public speaking techniques, and an exploration of behavioral psychology principles influencing audience receptivity, students will gain tangible skills to increase their impact as public speakers. Specifically, this course will equip students to: 1. identify how impactful speakers prepare for, present to, and pivot for maximum impact according to audience type, size, and receptivity; 2. learn strategies on how to “read the room” and adapt both verbal and nonverbal communication techniques in real-time; and 3. gain hands-on experience in public speaking through exercises designed to develop public speaking skills across a range of tech-sector specific experiences, circumstances, audiences.
- Department: Technology Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Wichowski
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
Presence and Persuasion for Technology L
This course teaches students how to get through to any audience for any reason. Technology leaders, more than in any other industry, must be equally comfortable as public speakers for vastly different audiences, from software developers and sales teams to politicians and the general public. Through exercises in speaker and audience analysis, studies in public speaking techniques, and an exploration of behavioral psychology principles influencing audience receptivity, students will gain tangible skills to increase their impact as public speakers. Specifically, this course will equip students to: 1. identify how impactful speakers prepare for, present to, and pivot for maximum impact according to audience type, size, and receptivity; 2. learn strategies on how to “read the room” and adapt both verbal and nonverbal communication techniques in real-time; and 3. gain hands-on experience in public speaking through exercises designed to develop public speaking skills across a range of tech-sector specific experiences, circumstances, audiences.
- Department: Auditing
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Wichowski
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 0 points
Driving Social Change with Technology
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This one-semester onsite course explores how social entrepreneurs use technology innovation to achieve social impact and help achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in collaboration with corporations and governments. Social entrepreneurs are defined as organizations who develop and implement solutions to social and environmental problems while striving for financial sustainability.
- Department: Technology Management
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Wichowski
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
Driving Social Change with Technology
Driving Social Change w T
This one-semester onsite course explores how social entrepreneurs use technology innovation to achieve social impact and help achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in collaboration with corporations and governments. Social entrepreneurs are defined as organizations who develop and implement solutions to social and environmental problems while striving for financial sustainability.
- Department: Auditing
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Wichowski
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 0 points
INTRAPERSONAL DYNAMICS & CONFLICT
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- F noon-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barry Sommer
Info - 3 points
Law for Technology
Law is infused into every part of business, especially through the lens of technology. Fluency in business and legal frameworks, risk/benefit principles, from idea to exit, is essential for any innovation leader. This course offers a deep dive into the critical phases of technology companies and their journey through growth, scaling, and eventual market exit. Topics include capital formation, contracts, intellectual property, human capital, and business transactions.
- Department: Technology Management
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
Strategic Advocacy
Today, leaders must confront a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It demands that we strengthen how we lead change. We are all being stretched to learn, unlearn, relearn, and this is especially true for technology leaders – who operate in the ‘eye of the storm’ of relentless change.
In this context, strategic advocacy -- achieving support for change to address the challenges that confront an organization and the opportunities they provide – requires knowing and applying useful skills, behavior, and practices to win commitment to new, even unanticipated directions.
This is a full-semester core course in the MS in Technology Management executive program designed to expose students to practices, tools, frameworks, concepts, and real-world examples that will help you move from a technical/functional role to a senior executive orientation. Everyone’s journey is unique. As you apply the course content in real life you will be expected to choose, experiment with, and adapt the relevant approaches most meaningful to your situation.
Digital Transformation
This course explores the principles, strategies, and challenges of technology-driven transformation in organizations. Students will examine emerging technologies, digital disruption, and frameworks for implementing large-scale change. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of digital transformation, focusing on how businesses leverage technology to drive transformation based on various drivers including efficiency, productivity, competitive advantage, and compliance. Students will explore key topics such as product development, systems development lifecycle, enterprise architecture, IT capabilities, and automation. Through case studies, research, and hands-on projects, students will develop the skills needed to lead strategic and technical skills necessary to lead and manage digital transformation initiatives.
- Department: Technology Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard R. Ranade
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Shahryar Shaghaghi
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Instructor:
Kathy Cage
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Instructor:
Steve Rothman
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GRN BLDG & SUST: TOOLS & TECH
GREEN BLDG & SUS: TOOLS & TECH
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- Department: Construction Administration
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher P Hagen
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GRN BLDG & SUST: TOOLS & TECH
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- Department: Auditing
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher P Hagen
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SCRIPT TO SCREEN
- Department: Film
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- F 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mathilde A Hauducoeur
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Instructor:
Trey Ellis
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Yared Zeleke
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Jordana A Spiro
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Alexander P Cannon
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Myna J Joseph
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Instructor:
Tom Kalin
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Instructor:
David G Gutnik
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Big Data & Political Strategy
Some experts on U.S. political campaigns have argued that big data has fundamentally changed the way politicians win elections and pursue policymaking. With the combination of massive amounts of personal data and information about individual voters and society at large, readily available processing power, sophisticated machine learning techniques, and cheap and efficient communication methods, modern political professionals are able to identify likely supporters, understand their issues of interest and concern, make direct appeals with micro-targeted messages, and mobilize these constituencies to donate, volunteer, turnout, mobilize, and vote accordingly. Without a doubt, big data has the potential to inform strategic decision-making across multiple aspects of politics.
In this course, students will learn about the range of big data sources that can be gathered and aggregated, including public data, voter file data, consumer data, and more. Students will become familiar with the ways in which data can be used to gain insights about voters’ sentiments, attitudes, and opinions and to develop strategies to predict and prompt behavior. Most importantly, students will learn to synthesize a variety of data sources into a cohesive strategy and presentation that can be given to decision-makers, whether for electoral or advocacy purposes.
- Department: Political Analytics
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin Messner
Info - 3 points
Global Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
This onsite course takes students on a virtual journey through the world’s leading innovation hubs across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. Students will analyze the structures, dynamics, and key stakeholders that shape entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, including entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, policymakers, universities, accelerators, incubators, and industry associations.
- Department: Technology Management
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katja Schroeder
Info - 3 points
Technology Marketing
This class provides students with a deep dive into marketing and communication strategies and channels for tech company, product, and services launches. Students will work on customer personas for B2B and B2C technologies and reflect upon sustainability guidelines to shape their marketing strategy. They will analyze the different elements that make a soft and hard launch successful, such customer testimonials and industry analyst relations. The course will also discuss how AI is changing the marketing of companies, products and services.
- Department: Technology Management
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katja Schroeder
Info - 3 points
Technology Marketing
This class provides students with a deep dive into marketing and communication strategies and channels for tech company, product, and services launches. Students will work on customer personas for B2B and B2C technologies and reflect upon sustainability guidelines to shape their marketing strategy. They will analyze the different elements that make a soft and hard launch successful, such customer testimonials and industry analyst relations. The course will also discuss how AI is changing the marketing of companies, products and services.
- Department: Auditing
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katja Schroeder
Info - 0 points
RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION & RENOVATIONS
RESIDENTIAL CONSTR & RENOV
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- Department: Construction Administration
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kurt C Decker
Info - 3 points
Painting: Color, Materials and Technique
Pntng: Color, Materials &
What does it mean to think materially? To
use
color? These are the questions that will guide this foundational course designed for painters, ranging from beginner to advanced, who want to develop their technique and material thought process.
We will begin with a focus on color, using the Albers method to learn first from experience, developing an eye for color, before we delve into color theory and color philosophy. The creative eye for color will aid us as we learn the ins and outs of acrylic painting, oil painting, the mediums, historical techniques, and associated theoretical concerns in
how
something is painted. Some of the class will be spent painting observationally, working on our ability to see creatively and translate experience into material. Many of the projects will be self-directed in subject or approach, whether you consider yourself a staunch realist or pure abstract artist, focusing mostly on the material language of the painting. Students can expect to cover the basics of a studio practice, such as stretching canvases, building a palette, developing a range of techniques, as well as gaining a critical eye for material decisions and how to realize their vision.
- Department: Visual Arts
- W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kelsey M Shwetz
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy Management is the cornerstone of any sustainability initiative. The generation, distribution, and use of energy has a profound, continuous, and global impact on natural resources, societal structure, and geopolitics. How energy is used has significant repercussions on an organizations cash flow and profitability. For these reasons, energy issues tend to be the fulcrum upon which sustainability programs hinge.
The ability to identify and articulate organizational benefits from energy savings tied to efficiency improvements and renewable energy projects is a requisite skill set for all sustainability managers.
This course will provide real-world information on energy management issues from a practitioner's perspective. Through lectures, problem sets, and readings students will learn how to manage energy audits, analyze building energy performance, and evaluate the energy use and financial impacts of potential capital and operations improvements to building systems. The class will focus on understanding energy issues from a building owner’s perspective, with discussions also examining energy issues from the perspective of utility companies, energy generators, and policy makers.
Best practice in energy management will always involve some level of complex engineering to survey existing conditions and predict energy savings from various improvement options. Sustainability managers need to understand how to manage and quality control these analyses and to translate to decision makers the opportunity they reveal. This course seeks to empower students to do that by providing an understanding of building systems and methods for quantitatively analyzing the potential benefit of various energy improvements.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Sahagian
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy Management is the cornerstone of any sustainability initiative. The generation, distribution, and use of energy has a profound, continuous, and global impact on natural resources, societal structure, and geopolitics. How energy is used has significant repercussions on an organizations cash flow and profitability. For these reasons, energy issues tend to be the fulcrum upon which sustainability programs hinge.
The ability to identify and articulate organizational benefits from energy savings tied to efficiency improvements and renewable energy projects is a requisite skill set for all sustainability managers.
This course will provide real-world information on energy management issues from a practitioner's perspective. Through lectures, problem sets, and readings students will learn how to manage energy audits, analyze building energy performance, and evaluate the energy use and financial impacts of potential capital and operations improvements to building systems. The class will focus on understanding energy issues from a building owner’s perspective, with discussions also examining energy issues from the perspective of utility companies, energy generators, and policy makers.
Best practice in energy management will always involve some level of complex engineering to survey existing conditions and predict energy savings from various improvement options. Sustainability managers need to understand how to manage and quality control these analyses and to translate to decision makers the opportunity they reveal. This course seeks to empower students to do that by providing an understanding of building systems and methods for quantitatively analyzing the potential benefit of various energy improvements.
- Department: Auditing
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Sahagian
Info - 0 points
IT ADVANTAGES IN CONSTRUCTION
This course provides students with a solid hands-on foundation in BIM (Building Information Modeling) and other technologies that are revolutionizing the way 21st century construction projects are delivered. Starting from the Owner’s perspective, the class sessions will explore the benefits of BIM tools/methods as used by design teams, construction managers and sub-contractors. Students work with actual industry tools to create BIM Models that extract quantities for estimation purposes, link models to construction schedules (4D simulations), generate clash reports, and effectively communicate 3D site logistics plans. Once a BIM backbone is established, discussions will lead into and highlight: advanced applications, integration opportunities, responsibilities/contractual theories and the introduction of other 3rd Party Software. This course is a recommended companion course to CNAD PS5500, the Capstone Project. Students enrolling in the course are required to have their own notebook PC meeting the noted specifications.
- Department: Construction Administration
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Ward
Info - 3 points
ELEMENTS LATIN PROSE STYLE
Prerequisites: at least four semesters of Latin, or the equivalent. Intensive review of Latin syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Latin.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kristina Milnor
CULPA: 21
Wikipedia
h-index: 10
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- 4 points
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
- Department: Sustainability Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenna M Lawrence
CULPA: 6
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- 3 points
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
- Department: Auditing
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenna M Lawrence
CULPA: 6
Info
- 0 points
INTEGRATED TALENT MGMT STRATEGIES
- Department: Auditing
- W 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven I Safier
Info - 0 points
INTEGRATED TALENT MGMT STRATEGIES
- Department: Human Capital Management
- W 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven I Safier
Info - 3 points
THE BUSINESS OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAG
BUSI OF PROF SPORTS LEAGU
- Department: Sports Management
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- 3 points
ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
ENERGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVE
- Department: Sustainability Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
ENERGY MARKETS & INNOVATION
Existing energy sources and the infrastructures that deliver them to users around the world are undergoing a period of rapid change. Limits to growth, rapidly fluctuating raw material prices, and the emergence of new technology options all contribute to heightened risk and opportunity in the energy sector. The purpose of this course is to establish a core energy skill set for energy students and prepare them for more advanced energy courses by providing a basic language and toolset for understanding energy issues.
Using theoretical and practical understanding of the process by which energy technologies are developed, financed, and deployed, this course seeks to highlight the root drivers for change in the energy industry, the technologies that are emerging, and the factors that will determine success in their commercialization. Understanding these market dynamics also informs good policy design and implementation to meet a broad range of social welfare goals.
Upon completing the course, students should not only understand the nature of conventional and emerging energy generation and delivery, but also the tools for determining potential winners and losers and the innovative pathways to drive their further deployment.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Travis Bradford
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
DATA MODELING
DATA MODELING ONLINE
- Department: Applied Analytics
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven Hoberman
Info - 3 points
PEOPLE ANALYTICS & DECISION MAKING
- Department: Human Capital Management
- T 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron S Wallen
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING FOR NONPROFIT
COMM & MRKTNG FOR NONPROFITS
This introductory core course examines the central role of marketing and communications in fulfilling the mission of nonprofit institutions of all types and at all stages of development. The programmatic objective of this course is to build a shared set of competencies and understandings around the power, practices, ethical applications, and desired outcomes of nonprofit marketing and communications.
Dramatic changes across civil society in recent years, including the evolving role of nonprofits in democratic discourse and the rise of new forms of communications technologies, means that nonprofit leaders today must have a fundamental understanding of the principles of marketing and communications in order to ensure organizational success both internally and externally. While outreach technologies and trends change rapidly in our era, true excellence in the field is based upon a core group of basic skills that are hardly novel: strong writing and analysis, strategic planning, and the ability to connect disparate individuals across a wide range of disciplines and diverse backgrounds to build an inclusive community around shared goals.
This course is designed to help students gain these skills through engaging with the strategic frameworks and tactical applications needed to create and leverage a range of communications and marketing activities. The course will introduce students to multiple communications and marketing practices designed to engage key stakeholders, including donors, the media, volunteers and advocates, and additional internal and external influencers and sector leaders. Throughout the semester, the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all forms of outreach (written and oral; digital and print) will be foregrounded.
No prior marketing or communications experience is necessary.
- Department: Non Profit Management
- W 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Basil A Jr Smikle
Info - 3 points
Sust Metrics: Data, Construction and Use
Sustainability Metrics
The urgency to tackle sustainability-related global problems has revealed the growing need to create, maintain and analyze data on environmental and social issues with robust methodologies. The availability of nascent sustainability datasets and advanced data tools such as GIS, machine learning, and blockchain has expanded our capabilities for quick and agile decision-making in the sustainability space. However, compared to real-time economic data, timely and reliable environmental and social data are very much lacking. Sustainability indicators are able to transform a vast amount of information about our complex environment into concise, policy-applicable and manageable information. There is a very large universe of indicators to measure the sustainability performance of an entity, but the critical question is what to use and how many indicators should be evaluated. Sustainability indicators are either presented in a structured framework that can be used to isolate and report on relevant indicators, or aggregated towards a composite index or score/rating. The number of indicators used for assessing sustainability have proliferated, with hundreds of sustainability related indices around the world, including the Ecological Footprint, the Human Development Index, green accounting, Sustainable Development Goals, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) co-developed by Columbia University and Yale University, the Urban Sustainability Ranking System that I helped develop, and various carbon indices.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonay Aykan
Info - 3 points
CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS
This course covers the basic elements of crisis communication and the procedures for creating crisis communications plans and for reacting to crises when they occur. How best to develop various plans for different critical audiences and understand the most effective strategies for communicating your organization’s message during a crisis is explored. The course examines various types of crises that can occur with corporations and nonprofit organizations and the differences and similarities among them. How to avoid the classic and common pitfalls of crisis communication are addressed, as are ethical issues that arise during crises. Numerous case studies are discussed in class and exercises both in and outside of class are assigned so students gain experience in crisis communication situations.
- Department: Strategic Communication
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Assaf Kedem
Info - 3 points
PROGRAMMING IN JAVA
Java is a versatile and powerful programming language widely used to build scalable, secure, and reusable applications. It is invaluable for processing large datasets, automating data workflows, and integrating analytical models with enterprise systems. Java’s extensive libraries and frameworks, combined with platform independence, make it an essential tool for creating robust data-driven solutions. From building data pipelines to creating APIs that connect analytical models to operational systems, Java equips students with the skills needed to tackle real-world analytical challenges.
This elective course introduces graduate students to Java programming with the overall goal of technical fluency in the programming language. Through a practical and application-focused approach, students will learn to write, compile, and execute Java programs while mastering foundational programming concepts. Key topics include object-oriented programming (OOP) principles, Java's role in modern software development, and the essential tools, libraries, and frameworks.
The course emphasizes developing problem-solving skills through hands-on programming assignments. It blends conceptual learning with practical experience in one of the most widely used programming languages in enterprise software development.
- Department: Applied Analytics
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Feyzi Bagirov
Info - 3 points
Sustainable Operations - Supply Chain Ma
In an era of growing environmental and social awareness, supply chains have emerged as a powerful lever for driving
sustainability in operations. Supply chain emissions are, on average, 11.4 times higher than operational emissions (1)
making them a critical focal point for impactful change in operations. This course explores the essential role of supply
chains in achieving sustainable outcomes and equips students with the tools and insights needed to transform
conventional practices into innovative, responsible, and efficient systems. This course is part of a broader curriculum
aimed at cultivating leaders who can integrate sustainability into the heart of business strategy. It is designed for
students from diverse professional and academic backgrounds, no prior experience in operations or supply chain
management is required to excel in this course.
Through this interdisciplinary journey, students will gain a robust foundation in supply chain management, learning
to integrate sustainability principles across operations. The course balances analytical skills with creative problem-
solving, preparing students to address real-world challenges. Upon completing this course, students will gain a
comprehensive skillset to analyze, design, and implement sustainable operations solutions in their future careers.
Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the strategic role of supply chains in modern economies,
including their critical impact in decarbonization efforts. Students will also learn to apply key analytical tools such as
demand forecasting and risk assessment, while mastering strategies for sourcing, supplier management, and logistics
optimization.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Catarina Carvalho
Info - 3 points
WRITING ABOUT GLOBAL SCIENCE FOR INTERNA
WRITING-GLOBAL SCI-INTL M
This is an interdisciplinary workshop for scientists, future NGO workers and journalists seeking skills in communicating 21st-century global science to the public. Scientists will be given journalism skills; journalists will learn how to use science as the basis of their story-telling. The course is designed to give students exercises and real-world experiences in producing feature stories on global science topics. While most scientists and international affairs professionals have been trained to write in the style of peer-reviewed journals, we will focus on journalism techniques, learning how to translate global science into accessible true stories that reach wide audiences.
Science is performed by passionate individuals who use their intelligence and determination to seek answers from nature. By telling their histories and uncovering the drama of discovery, we believe that there are ways for science to be successfully communicated to readers who might otherwise fear it.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS
Effective dialogue is one of the single most important activities of leaders today. Whether you are confronting a team member who is not keeping commitments, critiquing a colleague’s work, disagreeing with a spouse about financial decisions, or telling someone no, critical conversations are often avoided or handled in clumsy ways. This course will provide the theory underpinning these conversations, diagram their structure, and provide specific strategies for approaching them successfully.
- Department: Strategic Communication
- U 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jesse L Scinto
Info - 3 points
STEM CELL BIOL & APPLICATIONS
Prerequisites: three semesters of Biology or the instructors permission. The course examines current knowledge and potential medical applications of pluripotent stem cells (embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells), direct conversions between cell types and adult, tissue-specific stem cells (concentrating mainly on hematopoietic and gut stem cells as leading paradigms). A basic lecture format will be supplemented by presentations and discussions of research papers. Recent reviews and research papers, together with extensive instructor notes, will be used in place of a textbook. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar.
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf
- Department: Biological Sciences
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel D Kalderon
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Core Data Science Concepts for Sustainab
The course introduces practitioners of sustainability management to the data analysis techniques and statistical methods which are indispensable to their work. The class teaches how to build statistical substantiation and to critically evaluate it in the context of sustainability problems. The statistics topics and examples have been chosen for their special relevance to sustainability problems, including applications in environmental monitoring, impact assessment, and econometric analyses of sustainable development. Students are assumed to have had no previous exposure to statistics.
This course demonstrates how to conduct a quantitative analysis of an organization’s work processes and operations, resource utilization, and environmental impact necessary to create a rationale for implementing sustainability initiatives. Statistical topics, including probability and random variables, will be discussed in both theory and in their practical applications for sustainability managers. This course will provide students with the skills to conduct regression analysis, to conduct hypothesis and estimation testing, to design surveys, and to prepare statistics packages. These quantitative skills are necessary for a professional manager responsible for the management of people, finances and operations toward sustainability goals.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bruce Kahn
Info - 3 points
Core Data Science Concepts for Sustainab
The course introduces practitioners of sustainability management to the data analysis techniques and statistical methods which are indispensable to their work. The class teaches how to build statistical substantiation and to critically evaluate it in the context of sustainability problems. The statistics topics and examples have been chosen for their special relevance to sustainability problems, including applications in environmental monitoring, impact assessment, and econometric analyses of sustainable development. Students are assumed to have had no previous exposure to statistics.
This course demonstrates how to conduct a quantitative analysis of an organization’s work processes and operations, resource utilization, and environmental impact necessary to create a rationale for implementing sustainability initiatives. Statistical topics, including probability and random variables, will be discussed in both theory and in their practical applications for sustainability managers. This course will provide students with the skills to conduct regression analysis, to conduct hypothesis and estimation testing, to design surveys, and to prepare statistics packages. These quantitative skills are necessary for a professional manager responsible for the management of people, finances and operations toward sustainability goals.
- Department: Auditing
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bruce Kahn
Info - 0 points
Special Topics: Nonprofits in Crisis: Le
In its first few months, the Trump administration has enacted mandates and policies that pose an existential threat to nonprofit organizations, particularly those that serve marginalized groups (i.e., BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrants). Anchored on current research on LGBTQ+ organizations, this special topic course explores how nonprofits are resisting the current regime, testing their organizational resiliency, and planning for an uncertain future.
In this seminar, students will examine the unique challenges nonprofits face in times of crisis and the crucial role these organizations have played in sustaining communities during pivotal moments in recent history. Students will delve into organizational and leadership resilience and learn the principles and practice of crisis management. This encompasses identifying risks, developing crisis management plans, communicating effectively, and building coalitions.
An elective of the M.S. Nonprofit Management program, this course is open to graduate level SPS and Columbia students with a focus on nonprofits and/or civil society. Classes will be highly interactive, centered on discussion of course readings, current events, and students’ personal and professional experience. It will culminate with student presentations based on research on an existing nonprofit that has been impacted by the current administration’s
policies.
- Department: Non Profit Management
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erwin Vincent S de Leon
Info - 3 points
ACCOUNTING, FINANCE, AND MODELING OF SUS
ACCTG, FIN & MODL OF SUST
This course is designed to provide students with working knowledge on how to make successful investments in sustainable companies and to prepare students to be conversationally literate in financial reporting. As you leave the school and become leaders of organizations financial literacy will be a skill set that will be vital to success no matter what career path you go down. It starts with a strong foundation in accounting and corporate finance, then moves on to ESG/Impact screening of potential investments, along with valuation techniques used to arrive at a purchase price. It will explore financial models that can aggregate multiple variables used to drive investment decisions.
To understand and lead a transition to a sustainability-aware business, managers must first be familiar with the terminology, practices and consequences of traditional accounting and finance. Students will learn traditional financial and accounting methods and tools. We will examine how these methods and tools are changing to improve product and service design, resource efficiency and allocation, employee productivity and sustainability performance outcomes. Students will learn how value is created in a company and the different methods employed to create that value, conduct due diligence, discuss optimal capital structure to finance a transaction, execute a transaction, and implement a Sustainability-based value-added operating plan to the target company. The course will conclude with students preparing a persuasive investment memo and accompanying financial model to the investment committee of an impact investing asset management firm. The course also provides a practical introduction to selected non-financial accounting topics including sustainability reporting standards, ESG corporate performance indicators and corporate social responsibility report (CSR Reporting).
- Department: Sustainability Management
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brad Schwartz
Info - 3 points
FINANCING THE CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY
FINANCING CLEAN ENERGY EC
- Department: Sustainability Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara Chapman
Info - 3 points
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING I
APPLD MACHINE LEARNING I
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING I
- Department: Applied Analytics
- M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Shilane
Info - 3 points
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING I
APP MACHINE LEARN I ONLIN
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING I
- Department: Applied Analytics
- R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Shilane
Info - 3 points
TRADITIONAL ERM PRACTICES
This course provides an overview of the traditional ERM frameworks used to identify, assess, manage, and disclose key organizational risks. The traditional ERM frameworks are those that are more commonly in use and include COSO ERM, ISO 31000, and the Basel Accords. This course also provides an understanding of the methods, tools, techniques, and terminology most organizations use to manage their key risks, presented in the context of the foundational elements of an ERM process. This will enable students to navigate the ERM landscape within most organizations, and, along with the second-semester course Value-Based ERM, evaluate opportunities to enhance the existing ERM practices and evolve their ERM programs over time.
- Department: Enterprise Risk Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marianna Belyavskiy
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Instructor:
Chris Magno
Info - 3 points
FINANCE FOR EFFECTIVE HCM
- Department: Human Capital Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Solange Charas
h-index: 4 Info - 3 points
UNDERWRITING
- Department: Insurance Management
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Instructor:
Mary Ann Susavidge
Info - 3 points
INTEGRATIVE CAPSTONE WORKSHOP
- Department: Sustainability Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kizzy M Charles-Guzman
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Thomas Abdallah
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Susanne E Desroches
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Fernando Ortiz Baez
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Maria L Gray
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Chandler I Precht
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Dubois Akeen Akeen
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Dong Guo
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AI/ML for Leaders
Generative AI represents a pivotal technological evolution with profound implications for the global economy and modern society. This course delves into the decades-long development of AI and machine learning, emphasizing its emergence as a critical economic and strategic force. As we explore this technology, we will assess its potential to revolutionize industries, enhance capabilities, and introduce complex challenges related to security, identity, and ethical considerations.
In this dynamic landscape, both incumbent businesses and governmental bodies face the urgent need to adapt to this disruption and the transformative changes it heralds. This course seeks to unpack the catalysts of this technological surge, its foundational principles, and the critical knowledge required for modern leadership in the AI era.
- Department: Technology Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hsing-Hsing Li
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Mark Ritzmann
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Raghvender Arni
Info - 3 points
AI/ML for Leaders
Generative AI represents a pivotal technological evolution with profound implications for the global economy and modern society. This course delves into the decades-long development of AI and machine learning, emphasizing its emergence as a critical economic and strategic force. As we explore this technology, we will assess its potential to revolutionize industries, enhance capabilities, and introduce complex challenges related to security, identity, and ethical considerations.
In this dynamic landscape, both incumbent businesses and governmental bodies face the urgent need to adapt to this disruption and the transformative changes it heralds. This course seeks to unpack the catalysts of this technological surge, its foundational principles, and the critical knowledge required for modern leadership in the AI era.
- Department: Technology Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Kuo
Info - 3 points
CERAMICS I
- Department: Visual Arts
- M 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacq Groves
Info - 3 points
NONFICTION WORKSHOP
- Department: Writing
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cristen A Beam
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Chloe Jones
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Jaquira Diaz
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Lars Horn
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Leslie S Jamison
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Wendy Walters
Info - 6 points
Global Economic Environment
- Department: Business Economics
- S 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
- F 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- SS 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Conor Walsh
Info - 1.5 points